WEST INDIA DOCK IMPROVEMENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 8

WEST INDIA DOCK IMPROVEMENTS.

') " ; ' tO'Nl)dN, MaicU 8. ■j The Port of. tdridbii Aiithority have resolved upon, a' further 'important improvement at the West India Dock. The Hew quay on the northern side of the ifexport dock is to be extended ta tihe eastward; thus assuring a /widening throughout of 20 feet, and an additional jingle !storey ti'krtsit shed,; 'about 540ft long by 75ft wide, ia 1 to be erected. The Result Avill- be' to provide ' additional berthihg accommodation 'ibv; a steamer of 4&Clft hi" length, and to increase the &rea of available transit sheds our this quay to upwards of 160,000 square feet. (To '.the northward* of the proposed imIprovehieut it is intended to erept in the import dock a t^o-storey shed, aboitt 440ft long by 3wft wide, in line with the rum sheds.^Tljei ground to be utilised in -this, as in,' the' 'pro'viftUs"; case, was formerly occupied' by certain sheds allotted to the luird wood trade which were either destroyed oz* damaged by fire lasfc summer, Ample accommodation for the hard wood .trade iik other parts bf the, dock willvbe.pi'o^ded ibyilie ; Authority, and further space for the general cargo ■ trade 1 ,, such as the new transit sheds are intended to provide, is much jie3ded'.